CM CLUB: What happens if you don't pay Ofsted?

[BoringTheBuilder]

I'm closing my business in July.
Just received my invoice for the Early Years Register
Should I phone them and try and pay less
Or just pay it in full anyway?
What happens if I ignore it?

I would just ring and ask if they reduce it for part year, if you don't pay it surely they would just send a reminder and eventually remove your registration?

Ofsted: Resigning and cancelling registration from the Early Years and Childcare Registers "If you do not pay the annual fee for continued registration but do not tell us you want to resign, we will take action to cancel your registration."
Guess if you didnt pay you wouldn't be insured- because you wouldn't be registered.

After posting here I received an email from my local CM coordinator advertising a free Childcare NVQ3 course for CMs in my borough. Would it be un ethical to start attending the course as CM but end my registration while doing it? Would that be possible at all? I still want to work in the field for sure, not in my home though. I think I will probably take the place of someone else who still wants to work a CM long term. Would that be totally unreasonable and bad?

That's up to your own personal ethics, Boring.

On the invoice front, you should pay it and then get a refund in July, otherwise they'd remove your registration and you'd be childminding illegally. Bear in mind that if you ever wanted to go back to CM-ing you'd have to start all over again if your registration had lapsed - if you think it's something you might come back to then it's worth keeping your registration.

I plan on paying the fee when mine comes around May, even though I'm finishing on 25th March. I don't plan to return but there is no way I want to go through the whole process should I change my mind so I'm keeping my options open until next year.

As for doing the course, that's up to you. I could never choose to do that myself if it meant another CM missing out but that's just me. I'm getting to the last module of my diploma I was 90% funded for. I started it way before I became pregnant and never imagined becoming pregnant again and giving up so it wasn't intentional but only you can make that decision.

But you keep your registration open aren't you subject to inspections even if not working?

And if I keep the registration open, how will I stop being a self employer to become a employee?? Isn't it too complicate being both, specially if I'm not working for myself anymore?

If you keep your registration open then you can just tell them you're not minding. They make a note on their records and don't mark you for inspection. You can keep it open for three years, I believe.

Registration doesn't affect your employed/self-employed status at all - Ofsted and HMRC aren't linked.

Interesting. So I can pay the Ofsted EYR fee, keep my registration open, call them and let them know I'm taking a break, than call HMRC and tell them I'm no longer working as self employer, than give my National Insurance Number to my new employer and all will be good. If I decide to come back to CMinding I just call everybody again to change circunstances. Is that right?

Interesting. So I can pay the Ofsted EYR fee, keep my registration open, call them and let them know I'm taking a break, than call HMRC and tell them I'm no longer working as self employer, than give my National Insurance Number to my new employer and all will be good. If I decide to come back to CMinding I just call everybody again to change circunstances. Is that right?